[Info-vax] Fortran

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Dec 6 19:03:19 EST 2018


On 12/6/2018 10:00 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/5/2018 9:12 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2018 9:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 12/5/2018 8:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> On 12/5/18 1:29 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>> Didn't Knuth say that global variables should be banned?
>>>>>
>>>>> And Dijkstra said GOTO's should, too.  How did that work out?
>>>>
>>>> Pretty well.
>>>>
>>>> Many newer languages does not have GOTO.
>>>>
>>>> And in those newer languages that does have it, then
>>>> its usage is typical extremely rare.
>>>
>>> We must exist in different worlds ...
>>
>> You see a lot of code in languages like C# and PHP use GOTO??
> 
> Unfortunately I do, because I work with people whose heads are filled with
> Fortran even though they are writing other languages.

"You can write Fortran in any language"

:-)

Arne




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